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DESCRIPTION:Emergency Action - Gaza: Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office, Market and
Montgomery SF - 5PM Monday December 29\n\nPLEASE FORWARD
WIDELY\n*************************************************************************\nEMERGENCY
ACTION! STOP THE ATTACK ON GAZA\n\nSilent Vigil at Feinstein's Office\n5PM
Monday Dec. 29th - Montgomery and Market\nBring candles, posters, and
banners; wear black.\nRain or Shine\n\nCo-Sponsored by Direct Action to
Stop the War; the Middle East Children's Alliance; Queers Undermining
Israeli Terrorism; SF Women in Black\n\nWe condemn the missile strikes that
have killed hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza strip as a brutal and
murderous form of collective punishment. The strikes in heavily populated
areas display a reckless disregard for the civilians of Gaza and are part
of an ongoing war by Israel not against Hamas or terrorism, but against the
Palestinian people. The following text is from a BBC eyewitness report in
Gaza City:\n\n"Doctors say the operating rooms are full and the morgues are
full and they have no place to put the dead bodies. They are asking for
every doctor who is not working today to come and help. We have seen in the
streets of Gaza today and this evening many funerals . . . It's a very bad
situation... There were Israeli aeroplanes everywhere, hitting everywhere.
You could see smoke from north to south, from west to east. The people are
really in a panic. The main object for the people now is to find a secure
place to secure their family. Gaza has no shelters, it has no safe places.
The Hamas security compounds are in the middle of the city - it's not the
kind of place where you see compounds outside the cities."\n\nThis recent
offensive against people in Gaza is only the latest in the Israeli
government's continued occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
With the siege of Gaza Israel has shown a consistent disregard for the
human rights of Palestinians leading to an unprecedented humanitarian
crisis in Gaza. Malnutrition in the Strip rivals that found in sub-Saharan
Africa, as Gazans cannot receive necessary food, fuel and medical supplies.
The effects of the siege will greatly impact the hundreds of civilians
injured by the missile strike.\n\nWe recognize that the US Government is
complicit in these crimes against the people of Palestine. We call on the
US government to end its support of the Israeli occupation, to stop the
billions of dollars in military aid sent to Israeli, and to end Israel's
criminal raids and siege on the people of Gaza. We gather outside Senator
Feinstein's office to send this message. We stand in solidarity and
sympathy with the innocent civilians being bombed in Gaza.\n\nIf your group
wishes to co-sponsor email
dasw.media@gmail.com\nhttp://bayareadirectaction.wordpress.com/ \n\n
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/27/18556606.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Action - Gaza: Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office
LOCATION:Feinstein's Office \nMarket and Montgomery\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/27/18556606.php
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